re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

But if the pilot manually turned it off the plane could still be seen and tracked?

Had a pilot say in this thread yesterday you could only disable it from the ground.

Mind listing your experience? Seems like terrorism if your version is accurate.

IMO, transponder turned off from cockpit by Iranians then plane was shot down after refusing to ID themselves once they crossed into Vietnamese airspace.

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Can you turn off a plane transponder so that it can't be tracked at all? Or would it still appear on certain radars?

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I read on Fox.com that websites like Flighttracker can track planes by signals given off twice per second from the black box. There are areas they aren't allowed to track after the plane would have been in certain air space. So someone would have had to turn of the regular transponders AND the black box deal as well, or so I believe.

My understanding is that once the plane would have turned and came back near land, the sites would have been able to pick it back up (as you can see on Fox's site where planes over the peninsula are visible on flight tracker)

So basically, it left and got out a certain distance where flighttrackers can track any more, and at some point would have had to turn and go over land where the trackers could have tracked it again, and this is seperate from normal radar tracking. So all of these things would have had to been "shut off"?

This is crazy!

We never did, why would they?

America entirely admitted to blowing the Iranian flight out of the sky. We just tried to claim we thought it was something it wasn't.

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If the Malaysian air force tracked the plane back across the peninsula…..why did they let everyone search on the east side for three days?

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The people responsible for tracking that particular plane may not have related the two incidents.

Not that I'm aware. This is bizzare.

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updates?

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Malaysian military now reveals it tracked MH370 to Malacca straits



A military source confirmed with Reuters that the Boeing 777-200ER with 239 on board changed course and made it to the other side of the Malay peninsula.

"It changed course after Kota Baru and took a lower altitude. It made it into the Malacca Straits," the military official, who has been briefed on investigations, told Reuters.

"The last time the plane could be traced by an air control tower was near Pulau Perak, which is on the Straits of Malacca at 2.40am.

"After that, the signal from the plane was lost," he said.




The plane reported went off radar and its last known location was 065515 North (longitude) and 1033443 East (latitude).

This is also supported with police reports made by some east coast residents, who claimed that they have seen huge lights and a plane flying at some 1,000 metres above sea level off Kota Baru.

However, search and rescue (SAR) authorities have failed to find any sign of the plane in the waters of the South China Sea.

Indications that MH370 might have turned back have since led the SAR operations to be expanded to the Straits of Malacca and the Andaman Sea.

Never mind